*In a true case of hit ’em where it hurts, three African American students and their families have been awarded $450,000 in a racial discrimination settlement by the University Place School District.
The students, Jamal Welch, Elijah West and Tyrell Wells, filed the suit in 2015, and say they were the constant targets of name-calling and slander by both students and teachers. When their parents complained to school authorities, they were brushed off.
According to Your Black World, the students were enrolled in Curtis High School when the incidents occurred. Now that they are all over the age of 18, they have left the school district.
Wells admits that as a result of the treatment, he struggles with anxiety and stress.
“While before I was easygoing and trusting of people, now I find that I hang back and analyze people before trusting them,” he said according to documents. “I also am more defensive than I used to be, and feel like I need to justify or explain who I am since I learned at Curtis that people have stereotypes and biases against me.”
In legal documents Wells described how he told a teacher about someone writing the n-word on his desk.
“As time went on, he would erase the slur, then someone would re-write it,” documents claim.
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